Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit's API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Kbin better, but I am happy and proud to contribute to this rapidly expanding family of communities that repudiates control by megacorps and Big Tech.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The great thing is that there's no competition between lemmy and kbin. We can use whichever we prefer and still have access to all the same communities.

[–] WindyRebel 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you explain what the difference is other than they are separated instances?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy and Kbin are actually completely different apps, like Lemmy and Mastadon, but they can federate with each other through the Activity Pub protocol, and they both happen to be aiming to be Reddit replacements. (Kbin is also aiming to have some Twitter-like functionality as well.) I like the way Kbin sorts its posts better, but I like Lemmy's terminology more. I don't mind either of their UI.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's different software displaying the content. Like if you used either Outlook, Gmail, or Thunderbird to show email. You can go to kbin.social and compare it to what you've got. There's also a bunch of scripts posted in kbinStyles to further customize the looks (that might be wrapped into later versions of kbin perhaps).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From my limited understanding they're all based on activitypub, so the way we interact and generate content is the same. The difference is the UI and implementation of features outside of activitypub